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Thanks John, will investigate :D

Thanks guys, pretty much what I thought. Any ideas what I might be looking at costwise? Current setup is monitored alarm, 1 door sensor, 3 PIR, 3 panic buttons

Hmm, unfortunately I'm not sure that's a sound legal position. But I guess it would be reasonable if it failed within a year to hang it on them. Plus another kitchen ceiling!

At work we have an old TS800 alarm system. A few months back it was set incorrectly and need a remote reset. I called ADT, & they sent an engineer, who was here for about 1 minute. This cost £140.00 I queried this as in the past they were able to give response codes & got it all sorted...

It was sort of included in my Homecare agreement - he noted that "installation was wrong/pipe too short but repaired as goodwill gesture" Which was nice.

Grate news! It's fixed! But he just renewed the cone, the pipe is still worryingly short. I would like to replaced the pipe, but I cannot see exactly how the flexible pipe is fixed. I see from Grohe specs that the original pipe is held by compression collar, would that be the same for a...

Agreed, the pipe is reallly stretched as far as it can be, so it was only a matter of time. Seems my BG Homecare will cover it, so DynoRod coming in today to fix. Hopefully.

Yup, got the panel away, flexible flush pipe is indeed pouring water out when flushing. Pipe approaches pan at 45 degree angle & held in place by huge blob of silicone. Connector looks to be halfway out on one side, presumably a push fit that gave up. Maybe a new pipe would be the best...

Thanks Axel but I don't want to do it a FIRST time! :cry: But I'm going away tomorrow morning and am choiceless!

Yes, I'm less panicky now & I have just found some other posts on this subject - seems a real perennial problem. It's a flexible hose running from (slightly offset) Grohe cistern into back of the non-Grohe pan. The pipe's dry so def the connecting joint. For me the hardest part will be...

Last night the kitchen ceiling began to collapse! I duly identified that when I flush the lav, (clean) water appears on the floor - & has been doing so for many weeks, but all is boxed in so has gone unnoticed. My task tonight is to remove the boxing so I can access the back of the bowl &...

He took it. Probably scaled up.

En fin. BG came again yesterday and fitted a new microswitch, and I have hot water! Huzzah! And it only took seven visits. Thank you everyone who supported me during this time of crisis. :D

Well there we have it. This one decided the pressure was absolutely fine, twiddled with DV microswitch & decided it was my fault for turning the HW on too slowly.

"The BG man may not know the difference between pressure and flow." Well that's just brilliant. I have a lovely old Vaillant 282, & yes it would come on at around (I guess) 2-4l/min. This morning wasn't the best but definitely at least 8 at the kitchen tap. He's arriving at 2pm (BGT)...

Reasonable but even on the last repair a mere trickle would ignite the boiler wheareas now we're back to full flow & not a peep from it. I'm getting a little fed up with it now, maybe it's reached the age where it just cannot be repaired effectively & I should get a new boiler. But not from...

I just noticed on one of the BG callout sheets eng has put "Low mains water pressure". If I open the filling loop it goes happily over 3 bar, is this considered "low" in the profession? Thames Water tell me that 1 is guarnateed minimum.

In defence of BG, I simply wanted the part back so I can see for myself how it was blocked, & if appropriate take it up with the guy that flushed my system the other year. Not having a pop, not accusing. BG are more than happy to come out, they have visited 7 times so far this year to try &...

Because we know which regs work & which are nonsense. Youngsters today coming to overregulated professions will become paralysed with indecision - nothing will ever get done. And everyone will suffer burst pipes and toothache.

I thought someone would spot that. Yes we do, and yes, we ARE breaking the law by doing so! Anything that leaves your mouth is technically infectious waste. But it's a tradition so we risk it.